Rangers rival and Motherwell assistant manager Keith Lasley has expressed his anger at the recent SPFA Young Player of the Year Award going to Ryan Kent.
Or rather, at the fact it didn’t go to Motherwell midfielder David Turnbull.
Kent picked up the award up after a show stopping season in Royal Blue, but Turnbull would’ve also been a deserved winner.
Unbelievable. David Turnbull is the best young talent this country has produced in a generation. Young player of the year by some distance.
— Keith Lasley (@keithlasley) May 5, 2019
Whilst Lasley’s comments on Turnbull being the best Scottish player of a generation might be a bit of a stretch, he at the very least has a point.
The young Motherwell midfielder has earned the acclaim of pundits everywhere for a superb season at Fir Park.
Compared to Michael Ballack and ever rumoured to be interesting Rangers, the 19-year-old has 14 goals and six assists in 32 games this season.
Those numbers are made even more impressive by the fact they’ve come from midfield. Ryan Kent, by comparison, has six goals and nine assists in 40 games at Ibrox.
But what Keith Lasley hasn’t recognised is that this award if voted for by the league’s professional players. That means that Ryan Kent’s fellow professionals felt the 22-year-old was a worthy winner of the award. The numbers aren’t everything.
David Turnbull will be disappointed he never won the award but Ryan Kent has had a very good season. (photo by David Young/Action Plus via Getty Images)
And whilst Keith Lasley might’ve been angry the Liverpool loanee scooped up the award,